Renaissance Collaboration Group

Your best solutions don't exist yet.

There's a level of problem-solving most businesses never reach. We help you get there — with AI-driven transformation, cross-functional strategy, and a methodology that creates solutions people actually execute.

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What We Do

The growth, operations, and technology solutions your business needs — designed to work as a system.

Every function in your business affects every other one. We're built to work across all of them — so your growth doesn't stall at departmental lines and your solutions don't sit in a drawer.

AI Consulting

You don't need another strategy deck. You need to know where AI creates real value in your business, get your people aligned, and move from pilot to production. We map it, build it, and stay with you.

How it works

Automation

Your team is spending hours on work that should take minutes. We find the biggest time sinks, deploy targeted automations, and train your people — so they can focus on the work that actually grows your business.

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Marketing

Research-driven positioning, demand generation, and content ecosystems that turn your differentiation into pipeline. We connect brand strategy to revenue so you stop guessing at what works.

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Sales

Revenue architecture, pipeline engineering, and CRM optimization. We design repeatable sales systems that give your team a process they trust and leadership the visibility they need.

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Operations

Strategic planning, performance management, and process architecture that create accountability and visibility. We build operational systems your teams actually own — not just follow.

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Finance

Financial modeling, capital strategy, and performance analytics aligned to your growth trajectory. We make your numbers tell the story your leadership needs to make confident decisions.

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Technology

Cloud strategy, data architecture, business intelligence, and digital transformation. The infrastructure layer that makes everything else possible — designed for where your business is going, not just where it is.

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AI Consulting & Automation

88% of organizations use AI. Only 6% see real results.

The gap isn't the technology — it's that nobody got the people aligned before deploying the tools. We map where AI actually creates value in your business, build solutions alongside your team, and stay with you from pilot to production to scale.

01

AI Readiness Audit

We map your process layer from your insight layer — showing exactly where AI creates value, where it doesn't, and what to prioritize first.

02

Pilot & Implementation

We design and deploy the first wave of AI initiatives alongside your team. Because the people doing the work helped build the plan, it actually gets executed.

03

Governance & Scale

Only 6% of organizations scale from pilot to production. We build the governance, data management, and cross-functional infrastructure that gets you there.

04

Ongoing Partnership

AI changes fast. We stay with you — tracking what matters, identifying new opportunities, and keeping your organization ahead of the curve.

56%
of CEOs report zero financial return from AI investments
95%
of generative AI pilots fail to deliver revenue acceleration
52%
of businesses say their #1 challenge is knowing where to start
74%
of CEOs believe their jobs depend on AI integration in 2026

Already tried AI and it didn't deliver?
You're not alone — 25% of businesses seeking AI help have already tried and gotten limited results. The problem is almost never the technology. It's that nobody mapped your actual workflows or got your people aligned before deploying tools. We start where the last attempt didn't.

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Our Approach

There's a way to solve problems most businesses don't know exists.

Right now, every person in your business — from the CEO to the newest hire — is defaulting to one of five problem-solving strategies. Most of them don't realize it. And most of those strategies produce solutions that nobody's truly committed to.

Our methodology moves people past their stated positions to find the shared interests underneath — and creates solutions that wouldn't have existed at the surface level. It's not a style. It's a specific, teachable framework.

This applies in two directions. First, it's how we work with you — embedding inside your organization, building solutions alongside your team, not prescribing from outside. Second, it transforms how your teams work together after we leave. The collaborative capability is as valuable as anything we build.

That's what makes transformation stick. People don't resist what they helped create.

Avoidance

Problems get ignored. Nothing changes.

Accommodation

People go along to get along. Real issues stay buried.

Competition

Somebody wins, everybody else loses. Buy-in evaporates.

Compromise

Split the difference. Satisfies nobody. This is where most businesses stop.

Collaboration

Move past positions to shared interests. Solutions emerge that didn't exist before.

We have the methodology to get here. Every engagement, every function, every level of your organization. The solutions that come from this level are why initiatives succeed with us when they fail everywhere else.

Leadership

Senior operators who've built what we're helping you build.

Joshua Little

Joshua Little

Founder & Managing Partner

Joshua founded RCG in 2009 in the middle of a financial crisis. The thesis that we're in a transformational period of time that will leave many businesses behind hasn't just stood up, it's gotten more true with time.  Joshua is a former top consultant for a state political party and has been trusted from the Fortune 5 level down to family businesses to help navigate disruption and grow because of it, not in spite of it.

Manuel Calderon

Manuel Calderon

Managing Partner

Manny leads RCG's sales and technology practices, with over 26 years of experience driving technological transformation and inspiring teams to acheive growth. From director of technology at a top bank to leading over $50M in annual sales at a top digital solutions firm, building strong relationships has always been Manny's first passion.

Julio Rivas, PhD

Julio Rivas, PhD

Managing Partner

Julio leads RCG's finance practice, helping mid-market companies turn financial data into decisions that grow the business. He's a Full Professor of Finance at Lipscomb University with a Ph.D. from UT Arlington, and teaches Managerial Economics in Vanderbilt Owen's Executive MBA program. He has served on the boards of Faith Family Medical Center and Kindred Exchange, and is a regular finance voice on Nashville TV (NC5, Fox17, WSMV) and in national outlets like USA Today.

Kenneth Woolridge

Kenneth Woolridge

Managing Partner

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Ready to find solutions you didn't know were possible?

Stop guessing at what to prioritize. Start with a conversation and walk away with a plan for stronger growth, smoother operations, and solutions your team will actually execute.